Favor spanking to discipline child

spanking

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 225. Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree that it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard, spanking?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	agree	disagree	don't know	no answer	strongly agree	strongly disagree	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	816	195	9	1	404	45	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	476	145	8	2	302	55	-	1481
1989	531	455	169	9	3	315	55	-	1537
1990	444	466	154	8	3	261	36	-	1372
1991	493	485	194	15	2	263	65	-	1517
1993	526	538	210	15	4	243	70	-	1606
1994	1015	909	357	20	7	522	162	-	2992
1996	944	890	357	33	4	512	164	-	2904
1998	961	880	336	34	2	486	133	-	2832
2000	940	780	328	33	4	588	144	-	2817
2002	1857	387	176	6	3	272	64	-	2765
2004	1906	433	182	8	1	222	60	-	2812
2006	2518	893	402	20	2	532	143	-	4510
2008	694	608	280	18	3	342	78	-	2023
2010	614	647	324	10	3	336	110	-	2044
2012	672	598	277	21	4	302	100	-	1974
2014	863	777	365	12	4	378	139	-	2538
2016	979	817	440	15	7	457	152	-	2867
2018	789	700	368	23	7	340	121	-	2348
2021	1317	977	827	4	1	424	456	26	4032
2022	1168	887	634	23	2	434	389	7	3544
2024	1126	804	587	29	9	381	349	24	3309
Total	41255	15223	7307	373	78	8316	3090	57	75699

Values

• 1 strongly agree

• 2 agree

• 3 disagree

• 4 strongly disagree

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook